2024 Skypoint Transit Invitational
- November 1-3, 2024
- Elkhart, Indiana
- Elkhart Aquatic Heart
- SCY (25 yards)
- Outcomes on Meet Cell: “2024 Skypoint Transit Invitational”
A gaggle of swimmers who would’ve been freshmen on the Notre Dame males’s swimming roster this season competed over the weekend on the Skypoint Transit Invitational in Elkhart, Indiana.
In August, the Notre Dame males’s staff was suspended for one educational yr after an unbiased regulation agency discovered that the majority staff members engaged in playing all through the season.
Though meaning the Combating Irish received’t be eligible to compete within the NCAA this season, the swimmers who dedicated to swim at Notre Dame starting this fall nonetheless look like coaching at UND and competed on the meet over the weekend underneath “Unattached – Irish Aquatics.”
The group of swimmers who competed on the meet embody seven would-be freshmen and two fifth-year transfers—none of whom have ever competed for Notre Dame beforehand.
Croatian Hrvoje Tomic had a powerful displaying on the meet, topping the sector within the males’s 200 free in a time of 1:37.36 after a 1:40.61 prelim swim which was his first time racing the yards model of the occasion. Tomic owns 200 free SCM/LCM finest instances of 1:45.83/1:49.52.
Tomic additionally clocked 20.78 within the 50 free prelims earlier than scratching the ultimate, which was a typical theme for the Notre Dame commits racing in opposition to membership swimmers.
Three of the swimmers raced the five hundred free, with Michigan switch Jack Callan (4:30.95) pacing the sector over Patrick Branon (4:31.10) and Sean Atkinson (4:31.82). All three personal private bests inside the identical vary, with Callan having been 4:24.16, Branon 4:25.01, and Atkinson 4:24.79.
Branon (1:41.50) and Callan (1:41.94), together with Jack Sullivan (1:41.35 prelim/1:44.29 last), Shane Eckler (1:45.53) and Charlie Tracy (1:51.11) additionally raced the 200 free.
Angus MacDonald, a U.S. Olympic Trials qualifier within the 400 IM, had some strong swims as he was the runner-up within the 400 IM (3:54.78), claimed the win within the 200 breast (2:00.93), and posted the second-fastest time within the 200 IM prelims (1:50.05) earlier than scratching the ultimate.
MacDonald has been as quick as 3:49.06 within the 400 IM, 1:57.94 within the 200 breast, and 1:46.51 within the 200 IM.
Kenyon switch Yurii Kosian was the runner-up within the 100 again, clocking 48.70. His PB sits at 47.03 from 2022, whereas Charlie Mayr earned a win within the 200 fly, placing up a time of 1:50.33 to return inside two seconds of his PB (1:48.78).
OTHER HIGHLIGHTS
Josh Bey, an Indiana commit and SwimSwam’s #8 ranked recruit within the boys’ highschool class of 2025, was a high performer on the meet as he collected 5 particular person wins and added two extra podium finishes.
Bey, 18, set lifetime bests en path to wins within the 100 again (48.39) and 100 fly (49.08), and added victories within the 50 free (20.86), 100 breast (54.97) and 400 IM (3:50.64), narrowly lacking his PBs within the 50 free and 400 IM. The quickest swimmer within the class of 2025 within the 100 breast, Bey’s finest time in that occasion sits at 52.98.
He additionally set a finest time within the 100 free, clocking 46.10 to complete 2nd to Waukesha Categorical’ Carter Jewell (45.89), and Bey was third with a PB within the 200 free, clocking 1:38.06 to path Tomic and Finn Winkler.
Winkler, who’s taking a spot yr away from school swimming after finishing his freshman yr at Texas, was simply two-tenths off his PB within the 200 free, touching in 1:37.95 after going 1:37.78 on the 2023 Texas Invitational.
The 19-year-old additionally set a big finest time within the 200 IM, dropping greater than a second to assert the win in 1:48.08, and added a 20.59 50 free and a 23.48 50 again on relay lead-offs for the Fishers Space Swimming Tigers (FAST)
On the women’ facet, Julie Mishler, the #17 recruit within the women’ highschool class of 2025, had some noteworthy swims for FAST.
A dash specialist and Louisville commit, Mishler received the women’ 50 free in a time of twenty-two.17, inside hanging distance of her 21.85 PB, and he or she additionally received the 200 again with an enormous finest time of 1:57.30. She was additionally the runner-up within the 200 free (1:50.55) and 100 fly (54.38), each new finest instances. The 17-year-old went 22.93 main off the FAST 200 free relay and was 25.40 on backstroke to guide their medley relay.
Profitable the 100 fly over Mishler was Irish Aquatics’ Alayna Riggins, 16, who went 54.18 for a brand new finest time. Riggins additionally received the 200 fly in 2:04.05, knocking eight one-hundredths off her guess time.
